Anglican Bishop: Global Warming Skeptics = Child Molesters

By Mark D. Tooley
FrontPageMagazine.com
Thursday, June 05, 2008

“Bishop claims environment abusers as bad as sex," colorfully declared the headline of the Birmingham (England) Post. The May 31 article began: “The Bishop of Stafford has compared people who ignore the effects of climate change to the Austrian child sex monster Josef Fritzl.”

In all too common fashion for Global Warming alarmists, the Anglican bishop recently employed a pastoral letter to liken dissenters on Global Warming to Josef Fritzl, who fathered seven children by his daughter, who was locked up in the basement across two decades.

“Josef Fritzl represents merely the most extreme form of a very common philosophy of life: I will do what makes me happy, and if that causes others to suffer, hard luck,” the Very Rev. Gordon Mursell explained to his Diocese of Lichfield. “In fact you could argue that, by our refusal to face the truth about climate change, we are as guilty as he is – we are in effect locking our children and grandchildren into a world with no future and throwing away the key.” the rest